Hat-guard.



0. E. KEATORQ HAT GUARD. AYPLIGATION FILED SEPT; s, 1905.

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PATENTED MAILZO, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. KEATOR, OF

TO DUNLAP AND COMPANY, OF NEW or NEW YORK. I

s No. 815,714.

Specification of Letters Patent.

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION HAT-GUARD.

ratented March 20, 1906.

7 Application filed September 6, 1905. Serial No. 277,273. I

7 To (ZZZ whom it may concern.-

-Be it known that I, CHARLES E. KEATOR, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat- Qruards, of which the following is a specificatlon.

the wearer when desired.

the bar end se- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perslpective view of my device applied to a hat, s owing the free loop about to e passed over the crown. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cord drawn out and the bar ready to be passed through the buttonhole. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the bar, on a larger scale, with the cord drawn as in Fig. 1, while Fig. 4 the cord drawn. as in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a hat to which my guard may be applied, and

represents the cord or ribbon guardv attached to the hat at one end I) and to the bar 0 at the other. This bar C, as shown'in Fig. 3, is provided with a number of holes preferably three, 0, 'c, and 0 the cord passing from 4 the hat through the center hole 0, then through one of the end holes 0, and then to the other end 0 where it is secured by a simple knot or otherwise to prevent its pulling through. This eaves between. the ends of as to form aT end to use, but which the garment of is a similar view of the bar with the bar an unattached 100 B, which is adapted to beplaced over t e crown of the hat, as indicated in Fig. 1, and down onto the brim. The bar 0 is then taken between the in a direction to ti hten the cord, .so that the guard will then eself-retaining by friction around the hat. The cord or ribbon and bar mayebe made of material to match the color of the hatband and arranged at the base of the ribbon into an almost unnotice able position. By moving the bar in the reverse direction the cord may be loosened thumb and finger and drawn around the hat v and removed from the hat, and the loop can then be drawn up to the bar, as shown 1n Figs. 2 and 4 that is, the cord passes from the hat through the middle hole first, so

the cord to more readlly engage and remain in the buttonhole. The. bar is then passed through the buttonhole of the garment of the wearer in the usual 'manner.

' In this specification I usethe term cord in a suificiently broad sense to include its equivalenta ribbon or the like.

I claim as my invention- In combination with a hat, a hat-guard comprising a bar having a plurality of holes therein and a cord attached at one end to the and at the other end to said bar, said cord passing freely through a hole near the center of the bar, then through a hole near one end of the bar and attached to the other end of the bar to form an unattached loop between the, ends of said barto be passed around the crown of the hat.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. E. KEATOR 

